Mapping courtship and kinship in classical Japan : the Tale of Genji and its predecessors /

Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan's comp...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Bargen, Doris G. (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvvn0rx
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Physical space: the sites of courtship
  • Conceptual space: the Heian marital system
  • Narrating courtship through a gap
  • Courtship in mid-Heian writings
  • Genji: courtship as play and performance
  • Murasaki: kaimami through a woman's eyes
  • Exiting the maze.